This groundbreaking book collects contributions from many of the world's leading climate and energy law scholars and provides the first major study of national Climate Change Acts.
The consequences of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species in non-native ecosystems is an area of growing interest for international policymakers and regulators.
In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources.
Environmental Crime in the United States provides an introduction to the laws that govern environmental crime, how these laws are implemented and enforced, and the impact they have had since their passing in the twentieth century and their continued applications.
This book covers the design, implementation, and auditing of structured occupational health and safety management systems (SMS), sometimes referred to as safety programs.
Die Flora-, Fauna- und Habitatrichtlinie (FFH-RL) stellt in Form der FFH-Verträglichkeitsprüfung strenge Anforderungen an die Genehmigung von Infrastrukturbauten, um die Schutz- und Erhaltungsziele betroffener Natura-2000-Gebiete zu wahren.
Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.
Persistent international conflicts, increasing inequality in many regions or the world, and acute environmental and climate-related threats to humanity call for a better understanding of the processes, actors and tools available to face the challenges of achieving global justice.
From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines.
This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the degradation process of an ecosystem, drawing upon the Mar Menor as a case study to highlight the damage human pressure causes to the environment.
An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.
The ecosystem approach, broadly understood as a legal and governance strategy for integrated environmental and biodiversity management, has been adopted within a wide variety of international environmental legal regimes and provides a narrative, a policy approach and in some cases legally binding obligations for States to implement what has been called a 'new paradigm' of environmental management.
Introduction to International Environmental Law provides a concise overview of international environmental law and the relations and agreements among nations to facilitate environmental protection.
Ecological Management of Mining: Achieving Environmental Compliance is a study and comparison - global in scope - of current practices used by mining firms striving for ecological management.
A comprehensive resource on different aspects of sustainable carbon capture technologies including recent process developments, environmentally friendly methods, and roadmaps for implementations.
A state-of-the-art review of adaptiveness as a key concept in environmental governance literature, complemented by global, regional, and national applications.
Societal Dimensions of Environmental Science: Global Case Studies of Collaboration and Transformation, brings together several key examples of the successes and the challenges that exist for environmental stakeholders trying to strike a balance between science and the societal implications of the issues involved.
Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North AfricaRegion provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region.
Effective protection of the marine and terrestrial environment increasingly requires cooperation between neighbouring States, international organizations, government entities and communities within States.
This book provides readers with a foundation in policy development and analysis, describing how policy, including legal mechanisms, are applied to the marine environment.
More than ever before the changing environmental and political landscape in the Arctic requires stability and foreseeability based on resilient common norms.
The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance.
Written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex concepts, laws, and policy, Production, Growth, and the Environment: An Economic Approach explores how economic growth usually makes people better off, but also asks at what environmental cost?
Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda.
Provides a comprehensive guide to climate change law in Australia and internationally, focusing on Australia''s implementation of climate-related treaties.
Canada has over-promised and under-delivered on climate change, setting weak goals and allowing carve-outs, exceptions, and exemptions to undermine its climate policies.
CONTENIDOPresentaciónSiglas, abreviaturas y acrónimosPARTE INUEVAS TENDENCIAS DEL DERECHO DEL MEDIO AMBIENTEHacia un nuevo entendimiento de la revocatoria directa de las autorizaciones ambientales por razones distintas al incumplimientoParticipación ciudadana en la elaboración del Código de Aguas de la Provincia de MendozaHacia una política y regulación ambiental y de tenencia de la tierra prospectivas: vinculación e integración de la protección ambiental, la justicia social y la sostenibilidadEl interés legítimo como limitante para la tutela judicial ambientalEl bloque de constitucionalidad ambiental en PanamáResponsabilidad fiscal por incumplimiento en el seguimiento y control a la inversión forzosa derivada del licenciamientoLa protección del Bioma Amazónico desde una perspectiva transfronteriza con especial referencia a la Alerta por deforestación: vulneración de derechos humanos de la Federación Iberoamericana del OmbudspersonPARTE IIPERSPECTIVAS INNOVADORAS DEL DERECHO DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICOEl mercado voluntario de créditos de carbono en proyectos REDD+Justicia climática y paz territorial: razones para abordar la huella climática de la guerra en el marco de la justicia transicional en ColombiaPARTE IIICIUDADES SOSTENIBLES Y ORDENAMIENTO AMBIENTAL DEL TERRITORIOCiudades de quince minutos: aproximaciones teóricas a la re-definición del concepto de "ciudad sostenible"El ordenamiento territorial ambiental como herramienta para la búsqueda del desarrollo localCiudades ambientalistas que desafían a Estados.
This edited collection provides a cross-sectional review of environmental legislation and administration in the United States, with comparative chapters relating to Canada and New Zealand.
The Price of Climate Change: Sustainable Financial Mechanisms presents a summary of the effects of global warming with specific emphasis on what these phenomena will cost and the price we must pay for trying to mitigate these processes.
A Few Acres of Ice is an in-depth study of France's complex relationship with the Antarctic, from the search for Terra Australis by French navigators in the sixteenth century to France's role today as one of seven states laying claim to part of the white continent.
How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.